Tuesday July 12th

Everybody up early. Big doings-going to Knott's Berry Farm. With all the excitement didn't actually get going until after eleven o'clock. This place defies description so I have inserted here some of the descriptive literature and post cards that I picked up. It is really fabulous - all started from nothing  - all run by the one Corporation- setting in the Old West tradition and out of this world. No admittance charge and you actually need the whole day to see everything. We wandered around until we came to the chicken processing plant. There are 750 workers in the organization and in the chicken plant alone I would say they had about 50. The chickens are put into a one way pen and on the opposite side a gate is lifted. One man grabs a bird by the head and body and pulls the neck down over a projecting knife cutting the head off. He then stuffs it into a metal receptacle until they are bled and stop kicking around. He handles about a dozen at a time. Next they are placed in a sort of large covered strainer and dunked into boiling water for just a few minutes - automatically timed. Up comes the container and three men take them and hold the bodies against a round revolving rubber drum that takes off all the feathers